Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series has reached end of life and it's now transitioned to Extended Security Maintenance.

Armbian 23.05 is out today as this Arm-focused Debian-based Linux distribution effort is approaching its tenth anniversary.

With yesterday's NVIDIA R535 Linux driver beta one of the unlisted changes with this driver update is revising the driver license around the firmware handling to make it more explicit around permitting the GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware binaries to make…

The V3D Gallium3D driver that is most notably used by the latest Raspberry Pi single board computers has landed support in mainline Mesa for native ASTC texture compression support.

FFmpeg's next release (v6.1) will prove quite exciting with Vulkan Video support merged for decoding H.264, H.265/HEVC, and AV1 content

Linux Foundation Europe has announced the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) Project to help facilitate more performant, commercial-ready software for the RISC-V processor architecture.

The openSUSE project announced that MicroOS Desktop GNOME has been renamed to openSUSE Aeon and MicroOS Desktop Plasma is now known as openSUSE Kalpa.

There's been a proposal in the works for Fedora 39 to raise its default vm.max_map_count in order to satisfy some Windows games running on Linux via Valve's Steam Play

GNOME 44.2 desktop environment is now available with more bug fixes and minor improvements to various components and apps.

For next year's Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release, Canonical is planning to offer an Ubuntu Core based immutable desktop OS flavor as an alternative to the traditional Ubuntu Desktop image

Canonical says that it's excited to explore the idea of a fully containerized and immutable Ubuntu desktop in the near future.

AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have out a rather significant set of patches this week to their display code 'DC' for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver.

Following yesterday's release of Chrome 114, Google today promoted the Chrome 115 series to beta.

NixOS 23.05 distribution is now available for download with GNOME 44, KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS, Cinnamon 5.6, and Linux kernel 6.1 LTS.

For those interested in GPU overclocking, AMD has posted the patches for implementing the 'legacy' OverDrive overclocking infrastructure for newer SMU13-based Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards with the AMDGPU open-source Linux kernel driver.

Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra on Wednesday posted the latest patches for the EEVDF scheduler, the Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First approach that is based on a research paper from the late 90's

There is a Linux kernel scheduler patch now queued via TIP's sched/core branch that can help with task scheduling on AMD processors sporting multiple last-level caches (LLCs / L3 cache) per die

For those fond of the Apache NetBeans integrated development environment, NetBeans 18 is now available as the latest version of this programming IE primarily geared for Java, PHP, and HTML5/CSS development.

System76 updates the Galago Pro Linux laptop with 13th Gen Intel H-Class CPUs, a faster 144Hz screen, and the latest Pop!_OS Linux distro.